The Chairman of the National Iron and Steel Sub-Committee at the Council of Saudi Chambers, Sha'il Al Aridh, warned against iron products that enter the Saudi market, which do not conform to the specifications, and said that products carrying toxic lead in their ingredients, especially in the paints of colored iron sheets and in the zinc material painted on galvanized iron, where the lead content reached 50 times the limit allowed globally, calling in the same context for the concerned authorities to adopt a strict system to prevent this chaos in the local market.
This came during his participation in the Iron and Steel Industry Conference recently. This came during his participation in the Iron and Steel Industry Conference recently in the presence of more than 850 specialists, experts, executives of steel factories and companies and chairmen of the boards of iron and steel companies around the world, and the conference addressed the suffering of national and Gulf companies from the unjustified dumping of Chinese steel and its invasion of the Saudi and Gulf market.
Al Arid called on the Ministry of Steel and Steel to adopt a strict system to prevent this chaos in the local market.
He called on the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to enforce strict laws and legislation to protect consumers from inferior steel products entering the local market, noting the need to achieve fair competition that would not cause serious harm to either national factories or end consumers alike, explaining that there are no sufficient and neutral laboratories that test the quality of these products that have flooded the Saudi and Gulf market, calling for these products to be subjected under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to fair testing in large laboratories to prevent commercial fraud in these imported products.
Al Aridh called on the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to test the quality of these products under the supervision of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to prevent the commercial fraud that occurs in these imported products. The head of the National Iron and Steel Sub-Committee called for the application of laws and specifications to prevent this chaos, as the situation as it stands threatens to touch the red line in the matter of laying off Saudi workers, all because of the loss of our factories that adhere to standards and specifications and the closure of production lines due to inferior imports.
Al Arid added He added that if we want to protect local and Gulf companies from collapse and loss and not to lose our qualified youth, apply international regulations and laws soon, otherwise we will be forced to reduce costs and dispense with labor, which will affect national labor and close factories due to the magnitude of the existing loss, indicating that the formula for protection should be to apply the standards of specifications and subject imported products to testing in impartial laboratories and prevent inferior ones.
Al Arayedh added that the current situation threatens to touch the red line on the subject of laying off Saudi workers and all of that because of the loss of our factories that adhere to standards and specifications and the closure of production lines due to inferior imported ones.
